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With curviloft, you will most probably get a group which is separated from the contours (and their "fillings") therefore it must have holes at the two ends. Copy/paste (in place) those ends into the "curvilofetd" group.
(Or post your model, too, so we can have a look).
@keyaren said:
...however i have come across this name GAIEUS all over the google search results.
Ah well, that will be me then - so I feel obliged to answer (or at least try) 
Check out this plugin: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32289
You can add different co-ordinates (in different systems) then if you wish, you can Position your camera (with a custom camera height - like that of the eye height of a person) and it will immediately turn into the Look around tool with which you can aim at your turbine, maybe create a Scene (to sort of "save" that view) and at the end, export images.
For the final image to be shown as a grid of TIN, you can turn on hidden geometry under the View menu and display your model in monochrome (or hidden line) face style. OR unlock thee GE Terrain then unsoften it (so that its grid becomes visible) and delete the GE image (to show it with the default front face colour while the rest of the model can be textured)
The problem is that since the @Last forums were migrated to the GGroups software, Google changed the product forum software twice at least and then the content could not be moved.
I remember however that when we changed the forum software in 2007, we moved all the content manually (as the two were not compatible). I know it sounds crazy but we did not want to lose anything. 
The "Sages" or "Top Contributors" (a system Google uses all over its product forums) is not merely a bunch of knowledgeablemembers but also who are activeand helpful- like Top SketchUcators here. There's one particular member there who is not only a TC for SketchUp but also for Google Earth (yes, I know it's something many folks do not care about here). There are lots of knowledgeable folks around here as well but since they are not too active, we cannot promote them to be TS's.
The term "sage" came from the developer team and means no more than a "localised" term for what later became (officially) "Top Contributors". I do not think the whole matter should be overemphasized however.
Simply rewrite that "no" in the link to "en" (or "es" as a matter of fact) to get the English (Spanish) version of standard PP messages.
Sajnos nem lehet a mĂ©reten igazĂtani. Rakhatod mĂĄs rĂ©tegre, ahogy Medvegy javasolja, vagy kitörölheted az összes segĂ©dvonalat az Edit menĂŒbĆl, illetve a View menĂŒben kikapcsolhatod a lĂĄthatĂłsĂĄgukat.
Let me shed some light here...
There are no "moderators" over the SU Goups ("Forums") but a certain group of (what it is used to be called during Google times) "Top Contributors" Emphasized; "Contributors". No power in hands (like the mods have here) or anything - they are "just" contributors who happen to be "top". (like myself as a matter of fact).
On a side note, they are also called as "SketchUp Sages". A title so far only given by the SU Team to certain members of the SU Community.
Some of them are also active here (and are "Top SketchUcators") while others have chosen to be silent. But they are here and are respected members of the community. Some are a bit hard to handle. But hey; I am not an easy-going person myself either!
Kris: empty layers get purged only. Could you place a guide point (say to the origin not to clutter your model) on each layer in your template?
@wo3dan said:
Or if there's no other geometry connected to that paticular endpoint, the start of the arc.
Meaning that your workaround could be: temporarily delete the short edge > create tangent arc > redraw short edge.
Exactly. Too bad but the arc tool in this case cannot "decide" which edge to be tangent to.
Hi Dima,
Have you got the latest version of SketchUp 8? This feature was introduced in Maintenance release 2 only.
Next will be geomodelling with SketchUp - although let's hope it won't happen tomorrow.
After 3.5 years, tomorrow - June 1 - Building Maker is retiring, surrendering to the new, 45 degree imagery on Google Maps and Google Earth.
(sketchucation.com)
From the source code:
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I wonder what Google Translate uses to determine the language of the website?
Neither do I (I mean do it too often) but sometimes it may come in handy.
As always, C&C, suggestions and questions are warmly welcome.
There are materials (or textures) - either simple colours or images - that you can apply in SketchUp. Now you simply had a B&W image - but imagine tracing a shape from a real world photograph. After you successfully traced the contours of the shape (and your face is created in SketchUp), you can actually use that photo to "paint" onto this face.
Once you import an image (as image) in SU, it is a special entity. If you right click, you can "explode" it - now it becomes a rectangle with that image applied as texture on its face (and already projected, too). This way (before PushPulling), you can even apply that photo as a texture on your new shape.
Of course, the photo needs to be taken carefully; excluding any perspective distorting as much as possible (or "un-destort" it prior to importing into SU).
Hi Joshua,
It's not the way you should do things in SketchUp. The program cannot recognize raster image pixel difference and create vector based geometry from it. Instead, if you insist on importing images as reference, use them as such: "reference" only. Start drawing on the face of the images, re-tracing the outlines (the blacked-out png must be an issue how you saved the image: in Paint.NET, save it as 32 bit png to get transparency to work).
I would not even strictly trace the image itself but really use it as reference. For instance, in SketchUp, you can have tangent inferences for arcs: exploit these features. All-in-all, start learning SketchUp so that you can efficiently model here instead of following raster image editing customs and trying to recreate what you have done there so far.
Are you by any chance using Google apps with that domain? If so, try to log in with a "simple" gmail account instead.